Pandora Papers: Exposing the ill-gotten wealth of elites, accumulated through tax evasion and corruption and laundered out to financial havens, Pandora Papers are the name given to a journalistic investigation based on a major leak of confidential documents from 14 law firms dedicated to the creation of companies in countries such as Panama, the British Virgin Isles and the Bahamas.
Earlier PM Imran Khan talking about the Pandora Papers stated: “My govt will investigate all our citizens mentioned in the Pandora Papers and if any wrongdoing is established we will take appropriate action. I call on the international community to treat this grave injustice as similar to the climate change crisis.”
Although complete data has not been made public as yet, following are the names of all Pakistani individuals in the Pandora Papers revealed so far by the ICIJ and The News journalists, who were part of the investigation:-
Pakistani names in Pandora Papers
Politicians
- Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and his family
- Minister for Water Resources Moonis Elahi
- Ex-federal minister and Senator Faisal Vawda
- Son of PM’s former adviser for finance and revenue Waqar Masood Khan, Abdullah Masood Khan
- Family of Minister for Industries and Production Khusro Bakhtiyar
- PTI leader Abdul Aleem Khan
- PPP’s Sharjeel Memon
- PML-N’s Ishaq Dar’s son Ali Dar
- PTI donor Arif Naqvi
- PTI donor Tariq Shafi
- Wife of PML-Q boss Chaudhry Pervez Elahi
- Former FBR chairman and finance secretary Salman Siddiq’s son Yawar Salman
Army officers or their family members
- Wife of retired Lt Gen Shafaat Ullah Shah
- Raja Nadir Pervez, retired army officer and former minister
- Retired Maj Gen Nusrat Naeem, former ISI director general of counterintelligence
- Umar and Ahad Khattak, sons of former Pakistan Air Force chief Abbas Khattak
- Retired Lt Gen Habibullah Khan Khattak’s daughter Shahnaz Sajjad Ahmad (also the sister of retired Lt Gen Ali Kuli Khan and sister-in-law of former federal minister Gohar Ayub Khan)
- Retired Lt Gen Muhammad Afzal Muzaffar’s son Muhammad Hasan Muzaffar
- Retired Lt Gen Khalid Maqbool’s son-in-law Ahsan Latif
- Retired Lt Gen Tanvir Tahir’s wife Zahra Tanvir
Business personalities
- Axact CEO Shoaib Sheikh
- National Bank of Pakistan President Arif Usmani
- National Investment Trust Managing Director Adnan Afridi
- Peshawar Zalmi owner and renowned industrialist Javed Afridi
Media moguls
- Jang Group publisher Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman
- Dawn Media Group CEO Hameed Haroon
- Express Media Group publisher Sultan Ahmed Lakhani
- Pakistan Today publisher (late) Arif Nizami
- The Gourmet Group, which also owns the GNN TV channel
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